"Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have fewer children"

“We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.”

“Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years.”

“In Paris, you couldn't really turn around without seeing the result of lovers' bad decisions. An artist given to sexual excess was almost a cliché, but no one seemed to mind. As long as you were making something good or interesting or sensational, you could have as many lovers as you wanted and ruin them all.”

“The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.”

“Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to be done to raise awareness, which is why I became an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society.”

“It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul.”

Source : "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, 1988.

“People have the power to redeem the work of fools.”

Source : Song: People Have the Power

“We can't control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything changes. But we can learn to step back and rest in the awareness of what's happening. That awareness can be our refuge.”